Your favourite Rush albums?


Started as a side discussion on another thread so thought I would just make a thread for it.

Pretty simple really, your favourite Rush albums and why?

To keep it simple, studio albums ONLY, no bootlegs, live albums etc.
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Showing 3 responses by pedroboe

Great topic, I’m a big fan up until moving pictures. I have tried very hard to like their newer stuff and didn’t know why I could not accept it. The balance is different Then I realized as I was listening recently. Geddi’s voice changed, he started to sing in a lower octave. This changed the sound of the band that I new and what impacted me when I was 14 and first heard Caress of Steel. You need that upper octave in the sound triangle, otherwise everything is low.
Having said that, my most played Rush albums are :

2112
Hemiapheres
Caress of steel
Moving pictures
Exit stage left 

But I own all their documentaries on video and their concert in Rio, I’m just stuck in the original Rush sound.
I feel the same way about pink Floyd, Toto and journey.
Couple more thoughts...

"something for nothing" is probably my favorite song and I use it often to test equipment or just when I’m driving and the road opens up (I don’t think barchetta is a good driving song in spite of how they promote it). It’s also my ten year old daughter’s favorite Rush song.

To those who are sensitive and put off by the technical issues in the drum solo of "all the world’s a stage" album (tape head misalignment or defective tape?), I just got the recent special edition box set of "hemispheres" and it includes bonus tracks. Within these, there are selected tracks from another live concert in which Peart plays basically the same solo and it sounds very good and clear.
Maybe he means the ones that he didn't throw out. The fact that they are still in the house....